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...capital if they engage in especially risky types of financial market transactions. As the financial services industry braces for tougher oversight, it's keeping its fingers crossed. "There's a lot of wariness about all forms of financial market activities and that's perfectly understandable," says Richard Metcalfe, global head of policy at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. "There's a huge amount of political pressure to do things. Let's do it in a way that is intelligent." (See "Turning Point for the Global Recession...
...Andreas Schmitz, head of the Association of German Banks, says "it's not up to the state to decide what banks pay their employees or managers." But like other issues on the table in Pittsburgh, this is a battle bankers are likely to lose. In a speech on Wall Street on Sept. 14, the anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers, President Barack Obama warned the banking industry not to fight reform. "We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only...
...instituted a major change, imposing a layer of editorial control on entries about living people. In the past, only articles on high-profile subjects like Barack Obama were protected from anonymous revisions. Under the new plan, people can freely alter Wikipedia articles on, say, their local officials or company head - but those changes will become live only once they've been vetted by a Wikipedia administrator. "Few articles on Wikipedia are more important than those that are about people who are actually walking the earth," says Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the encyclopedia...
Brown’s decision to throw for the endzone rather than attempt a 42-yard field goal that would have sent the game into overtime left many fans scratching their heads. But for Brown head coach Phil Estes, the decision was a no-brainer...
...workers traded aprons for lederhosen Friday night as the Cambridge Queen’s Head celebrated the German holiday of Oktoberfest...